LOS ANGELES -- A sign that Tavis Smiley's new PBS talk show is not standard-issue for public television: The set was created by tennis star and aspiring designer Venus Williams. That's just the start.

Talk show host Tavis Smiley speaks during the ‘Tavis Smiley’ panel at the PBS portion of the 2011 Winter TCA press tour held at the Langham Hotel on January 9, 2011, in Pasadena, California. In the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three years after workplace misconduct allegations cost veteran TV and radio talk-show host Tavis Smiley his job and a national forum, he's ending his silence. Smiley, who continues ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Walmart and a book distributor distanced themselves from Tavis Smiley on Thursday after PBS said an investigation found “troubling allegations” of sexual misconduct by the radio and TV ...

According to Variety, PBS hired a firm to oversee Smiley's behavior after reports of misconduct. As many as 10 witnesses, both men and women, spoke to investigators. A PBS spokesperson released a ...

*It appears things aren’t going too well for Tavis Smiley in his bid to get PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) to hand over internal documents dating back decades as part of his lawsuit Against the ...

LOS ANGELES — Tavis Smiley is all wound up. His voice is rough from too much vocalizing, but the host of public television’s “Tavis Smiley’’ talk show and public radio’s “The Tavis Smiley Show’’ is on ...

Princeton professor Cornel West and PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley stopped by Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report to discuss their new book, The Rich and the Rest of Us. Suggested Reading Black Man ...

Whither the Presidential Campaigns?What now for the presidential contenders, and what about the debates? NPR's Tavis Smiley speaks with Ron Walters of the University of Maryland and Deborah Perry of ...

Author and talk show host Tavis Smiley will be broadcasting live all week with DNC coverage from Chicago on WVON and KBLA radio. His new book, "The Covenant With Black America 20 Years Later" revisits ...